Taylori : challenge for 2008 !

[Nicolas]

interesting to see the different colours. The male is very tame, the youngest female very dark.

male

young female

medium female

2 mediums taylori (17 and 15 grams) eat now without any problem Acheta domesticus dusted with MinerAll.
The youngest needs some stimulation but it becomes more easy each time to make him taking small crickets.

if the cricket moves a lot then the gecko hits him against a surface (as described by Jon Boone)

just a lovely face ...

 

[Nicolas]

Somalian family is growing

1.2 WC about 3 monthes old, just coming and accepting crickets the first day.

little male sleeping

0.1 about 9 monthes old WC female

 

[Brian]

It may have been dehydrated at some point. I've seen the skin get pressed together on the back as Dan noted in some dehydrated relatives.

 

[Mooglebass]

Very nice, Keep up the good work your doing with them .

 

[Nicolas]

all is OK with my Hemitheconyx taylori group.
Feeding is now easy especially with the older 1.3.

1.2 about 5-7 monthes old

0.1 A

0.1 B

1.0 A

0.1 C (before shedding)

1.2 youngest (3 monthes old) are more shy and need some feeding stimulations.
0.2 D+E

1.0 B after shedding

 

[Dragonflames81]

that is one neat looking gecko!! great pics by the way.

 

[Luperosaurus]

Good luck with them! Great species in very good conditions.
I've remember how many adaptation problem was with first wild cought H.caudicinctus, but now people breed them without any troubles.
Yuri

 

[Mikhail F. Bagaturov]

Indeed Yuri!

And many still have great troubles adapting Holodactylus africanus...

Again, good luck with them Nicolas!

 

[Marlies]

Good luck with them! Great species in very good conditions.
I've remember how many adaptation problem was with first wild cought H.caudicinctus, but now people breed them without any troubles.
Yuri

Indeed, there were many problems - and now they are the subject of the morfculture- "funny" how things can change over time. Ow well, H. caudicinctus is a great species. I enjoyed breeding them for many years.

Nicolas, you've got some great specimens there! Good work and I wish you all the best with this species in the future!

Tariq

 

[Nicolas]

some interesting obsrevations.

If we read the observations of Jon Boone we can read that new born are about 5.5 cm SV and 2 cm for the tail.

My youngest 1.2 (group C) are about 7cm SV and 2.5 for the tail and 8 grams each; if I make comparison with caudicinctus they would be born about ocober 2007.

Group A (1.2) are about 16-20 grams and could be born march- april 2007
Group B (0.1) is about 13 grams and could be from june july 2007.

Group A is now self eating from forceps, They take Acheta domesticus 15-12 mm without any problem. If I let free the cricket in the cage I cut the long legs, the fore legs and the antemna so cricket move slowly.

They get 4 cricket dusted with minerAll every 2 days.

Group B female in now taking 15 mm crickets with very short and gentle stimulation. She takes weight.

Group C is more challenging, stimulation must be longer (about 10-15 seconds). Once the 10 mm cricket is taken the gecko will stay with the Acheta in the mouth about 45 sec and after eat very quickly. Each day the Group C geckos get water from a syringe.

So I think it could be an optimal age for crossfeeding Hemitheconyx taylori , perhaps newborn and very youngs animals need very little and slow insects.

With 9-10 monthes old Hemitheconyx it seems more easy to make them taking crickets.
Each group A geckos has easten about 40 Acheta domesticus in one month !

Pict are not very good but no easy to give cricket and to take pictures.

 

[Adrizoo]

Great hopes for the future of this species... Hope that the'll turn back like the P.masobe from the other threads...

Good luck!

 

[theviperking]

Nice... very nice man!!!
Hope you can share some keeping tips to me/us!?
I'm ready to keep them too...

 

[Nicolas]

some news of my Hemitheconyx taylori group.

I have now 2.4 left, one very young female is dead, she never ate anything.

My group is in perfect condition and all the geckos do accept Acheta domesticus from a forceps or from the hand without any force feeding.

I do not put crickets in the cages so I can control who eats and how many each gecko takes.

Temp is about 32 to 26 the day (hot and cool places) and room temp the night.
Lighting 12 hours a day.
Substrate is children white sand.
Always a wet place like Nephrurus.

I do spray once a day with 20 C water.

Enjoy some pictures

semi adult female

semi adult male

older female

younger female

baby male

baby female

 

[Mikhail F. Bagaturov]

Congrats!!
They start looking like they always being captive

Sorry for th lost of 1 sp ;(
And good luck!!!

 

[Nicolas]

Some new pics from the male.

His ground color is very tame.

in comparison with baby male

scalation of the head is impressive and quite different from the H. caudicinctus one.

Details of the tail : short if compared with caudicinctus and not only a reserve of fat tissue but an image of the hydratation of the animal.

Feeding the semi adult is a pleasure , they takes by themselves big crickets from the hand or from the forceps in half a second and eat them in two without any problem. I prefer to give every cricket to every gecko with forceps to check what every gecko eats. A growing semi adult can take 4-6 females Acheta domesticus each other day ! According to my Excel control page this male has eaten about 80 Acheta domesticus in 50 days. When I got it, its weight was 11 grams, he is now 21 grams !!!

 

[lemonjello]

WOW. I would love to have a hemitheconyx taylori. They look kinda like dragons.

 

[Nicolas]

some pics of the females

with a fatty tail

the older one

with her "Batwoman face "

0,2 babies

 

[Charles]

Very cool geckos, hope one day have chance to see them not in picture. And all of us are waiting for your good news in 2008!!

Cheer,
Charles

 

[Rob D'heu]

Looking great , keep us updated .
If everything goes well I should have 1.1 this week .

 

[Nicolas]

would be great !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!